When I get wistful for the internet of old, one thing that strikes me is that all the blogs back then, well, they were just blogs. The idea of weblog...

My experience on the web has been one of dualities.

"«Creo que será más importante que nunca que #Mastodon y #Fediverso no sean operados centralmente desde los EE. UU., a diferencia de casi todas las demás plataformas de redes sociales que existen. » — Eugen Rochko, al hilo de la victoria de Donald Trump en las elecciones del martes 5 de noviembre de 2024."

Contra el 'nature writing' escribe María Sánchez en este ensayo inédito

The commercial web is utterly broken. Thankfully, there is another friendly and interesting internet out there.

"But here’s the thing... The friendships that survive adulthood’s chaos are almost always worth the effort. You are not friends because you sit in the same classroom or live on the same block. You are friends because you made the decision to invest in each other despite all the other demands on your time."

Fragmento de 'Set Knowledge Free', un mural ilustrado por Tomi Um que se encuentra en el hall de las oficinas de la Fundación Wikimedia en San Francisco. Hace tres semanas tuve el lujo de participar en el Encuentro de Literatura Queer junto a las enormes Cristina Fallarás y Silvia Agüero. La mesa se llamaba "Supervivencia…

"One of the big appeals of interactive TV was adoption, the average household had a TV long before the average household had a computer. So, it seems like interactive TV services should have proliferated before personal computers, at least following the logic that many in the industry did at the time."

El año pasado, dimos ese gran salto con triple tirabuzón que es comprarse una casa. Tras 4 años de dar vueltas por el mundo, llegó, por f...

Mai chim fan. Toothpick in Thai. It was one of the first words I made sure to learn when I came to Thailand. Partly because I knew I would have use for it...

"I write knowing it may disappear. I highlight books knowing the highlights will fade. I trust that what matters will return, will find its way to the surface. I no longer worship the permanence of text."

Social media timelines are designed to be an endless stream of, well, mostly garbage these days. Platforms are doing their absolute best (worst?) to …

On the purpose of a personal blog, getting back into creative pursuits, and general burnout

The simple pleasure of listening to music the old-school way by storing it on your phone. Pros and cons of managing your music library offline. Rediscovering patience from the early digital era.

Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest...

I’ve been toying with the idea of a building a modern office around 8 and 16 bit microcomputers from the 1980s and early 90s. This is an idea that I dig up every few months and play with for a few hours before discarding it because it’s impractical and expensive. This is a description of my current version of this idea, and how it would work in practice.

My wife and I recently discovered a bum gun in one of our bathrooms at home. It gave me quite the shock!

Una de mis aficiones son las estilográficas, las tintas y los cuadernos. Por suerte, ya he dejado la etapa de no "manchar" los cuadernos....